Honey Boo Boo Reveals Why She Won’t Get Married Just Yet

The truth star additionally shared her need to have youngsters sometime, however solely when the timing feels proper.

Now 19 and targeted on her nursing research, Honey Boo Boo is balancing younger maturity, love, and life after actuality TV with shocking readability.

In a latest unique interview with E! Information, Honey Boo Boo confirmed that she and Carswell, who’ve been courting since 2021, are in an excellent place however aren’t speeding down the aisle.

She cited the fee and stress of planning a marriage as the explanations behind their choice.

“Not till after college, most likely. Simply because it’s so costly and a marriage is plenty of work,” she advised correspondent Will Marfuggi.

Nonetheless, the tv character added that marriage was “sooner or later,” suggesting she and Carswell are dedicated however taking issues at their very own tempo.

“I wish to have youngsters ultimately. I don’t wish to have plenty of youngsters—I need possibly two, that’s it—however not for a very long time,” she advised the outlet.

Honey Boo Boo could make certain about wanting youngsters sometime, however the actress isn’t sure about elevating her youngsters in entrance of cameras.

The previous baby star, who grew up within the highlight, advised Marfuggi she didn’t need her youngsters to expertise the hate from fame.

“I’ve been within the highlight for thus lengthy. I’ve simply seen all of the hate that I obtained after I was youthful. I don’t know if I’d wish to put my child via that. I would simply wait till they get sufficiently old to make that call for themselves,” she defined.

The truth TV character’s journey to stardom started when she was solely 5 years previous.

On the time, Thompson was filming an interview on TLC’s “Toddlers and Tiaras” when she mentioned, “A greenback made me holler, honey boo boo,” birthing her nickname.

Whereas that second was etched in TV historical past, the years that adopted weren’t rosy. In an unique chat with PEOPLE Magazine forward of the discharge of her biopic, Alana Thompson recounted her horrible expertise as a baby star.

The “Right here Comes Honey Boo Boo” star advised the outlet that in her upcoming Lifetime movie, “I Was Honey Boo Boo,” she didn’t assume twice earlier than pouring out all the things she and her late sister Anna went via within the palms of their mother, Mama June.

“I’m a bit nervous. I didn’t need this film to be throwing punches at my mama and making her out to be the dangerous man. However I didn’t maintain again, and if she will get mad, on the finish of the day, it’s the reality,” she mentioned.

Honey Boo Boo additionally detailed how their household life collapsed, all due to Mama June’s drug dependancy.

“I seen one thing was off about her,” she mentioned of that point. “She began locking her doorways, which actually made me assume, ‘Oh, what’s she doing?’”

Finally, Mama June and her then-boyfriend Eugene Doak obtained arrested in March 2019 and had been charged with felony drug possession. Honey Boo Boo mentioned it was a troublesome time in her life, particularly as she was nonetheless at school.

“Individuals had been like, ‘I noticed your mama on the information with a busted tooth, strung out.’ I’m like, ‘Nice, like I didn’t see that too,’” she recalled.

Nevertheless, regardless of all that occurred, Honey Boo Boo pushed via. With the assistance of her sister, Lauryn, she targeted on college and graduated in 2023.